Efficiency measures and productivity indexes in the context of university library benchmarking

Applied Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-323

  Reichmann, Gerhard ^a   Sommersguter Reichmann, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HIGHER EDUCATION; PANEL DATA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77950944235     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701604511     Document Type: Article

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